In power, insight, scale, and ambition, O’Neill is unsurpassed among American dramatists. He began as a realist-naturalist in a native tradition... His last work is both his best and his most characteristically American: It demonstrates a fierce determination to dig beneath the illusions and lies of everyday behavior, to assert a profoundly tragic sense of man’s shortcomings, and to reconcile himself to the melancholy state of a flawed and often unjust universe.
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Brief Bio (excerpt from Ebsco Discovery Service)
